Illustrative Context

He fell and broke his leg.

Target Sense

• The most generic noun for the leg as a part of the human body.
• In many languages the same basic term is also applicable to the legs of animals, or even more widely in a figurative sense, e.g. a table leg. Avoid terms specific to any such senses, however, and which are not the default word for the human leg.
• Where a language uses the same basic lexeme for foot as well as leg (e.g. Russian нога), with no basic term specific to leg in contrast with foot, then that lexeme may be selected here, as well as for the separate IE-CoR meaning foot. Indicate this in the notes field. See also the target senses for the IE-CoR meanings hand and arm.